Triple

T21322737
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Porter J. McCumber E525661 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object McCumber
McCumber is a surname of likely Scottish or Irish origin borne by various individuals, including American politician Porter J. McCumber.
 E1478071 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: McCumber | Statement: [Porter J. McCumber, familyName, McCumber]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McCumber
Context triple: [Porter J. McCumber, familyName, McCumber]
  • A. Corbitt
    Corbitt is a variant spelling of the surname Corbett, which is of English and Scottish origin.
  • B. Gombauld
    Gombauld is a modernist painter and one of the central, satirically portrayed guests at the country-house gathering in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow."
  • C. Kimble
    Kimble is the surname of former American college basketball star Bo Kimble, best known for leading Loyola Marymount University's high-scoring offense in the late 1980s.
  • D. Kimble
    Kimble is the given name of American actor Jonathan Kimble Simmons, known professionally as J.K. Simmons.
  • E. Balcomb
    Balcomb is a masculine given name most notably borne by the American abstract painter and art critic Balcomb Greene.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: McCumber
Triple: [Porter J. McCumber, familyName, McCumber]
Generated description
McCumber is a surname of likely Scottish or Irish origin borne by various individuals, including American politician Porter J. McCumber.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McCumber
Target entity description: McCumber is a surname of likely Scottish or Irish origin borne by various individuals, including American politician Porter J. McCumber.
  • A. Corbitt
    Corbitt is a variant spelling of the surname Corbett, which is of English and Scottish origin.
  • B. Gombauld
    Gombauld is a modernist painter and one of the central, satirically portrayed guests at the country-house gathering in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow."
  • C. Kimble
    Kimble is the surname of former American college basketball star Bo Kimble, best known for leading Loyola Marymount University's high-scoring offense in the late 1980s.
  • D. Kimble
    Kimble is the given name of American actor Jonathan Kimble Simmons, known professionally as J.K. Simmons.
  • E. Balcomb
    Balcomb is a masculine given name most notably borne by the American abstract painter and art critic Balcomb Greene.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69e0b51ad810819098c12392c8e55f6c completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e77ed355cc8190a305c1c48117fb9e completed April 21, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a099ee48a0881909edd40cde83d10c5 completed May 17, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a099fa8142c819090f4521e39157cf0 completed May 17, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09a0b6374c8190bfea2d9a3c02a69b completed May 17, 2026, 11:04 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 4:40 p.m.